Motor-vehicle.



Patented Nov. 2|, |899.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE FRANCIS REED, oF wALDo, FLoRIDA.

MOTOR-VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,665, dated November21, 1899.

Application filed August 2, 1899. Serial No. 725,884. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FRANCIS REED, of Waldo,in the county ofAlachua and State of Florida, have invented a new and ImprovedMotor-Vehicle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to an apparatus designed especially for haulinglogs and like4 material; and it therefore embodies, in connection Withthe gearing for propelling the vehicle, a power-driven means for raisingthe logs or other material constituting the load in position to betransported.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of the invention andthe claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indidatecorresponding parts in both the gures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention with part of the framing brokenaway, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with the rear axle insection.

The motor-vehicle has a platform or .body 3, which may be constructed inany desired .manner, preferably by longitudinal beams 4,

(one of which is shown in Fig. 2,) extending from front to rear of thebody. The vehicle is provided at its rear with a stationary axle 5, onwhich are loosely mounted the tractionwheels 6, and the front of theVehicle is supported by a pilot or third wheel 7, carried in a turningfork 8, which may be operated by miter-gears 9 and 10, the former beingconnected with the steering-shaft,11, carrying a hand-wheel 12. It ispreferred to use a gasolene-engine in a manner that will be hereinafterdescribed, and should such an engine be employed the oil forming thefuel thereof may be kept in a tank 14E, mounted at the front of thevehicle, and through which tank is passed the shaft 1l, facilitating thediagonal disposition of the shaft, as shown.

The engine 15 is mounted on the platform or body 3 and should besecurely braced in its position by suitable fastenings with the framingof the body. The engine-shaft 16 is extended rearward and provided at isrear extremity with a bevel-gear 17, which meshes with a similar gear18` fast on a shaft 19, which is mounted to turn in bearings 20, carriedon the vehicle-body, at the rear thereof. Clutch members 21,1are splinedon the shaft 19, respectively at the ends thereof, and work withcorresponding clutch members attached to pinions 22, which are arrangedloosely on the shaft 19. These pinions 22 mesh with spur-gears 23,forming parts of the traction-Wheels 6. The clutch members 21 may bethrown by levers 24, mounted on the body of the vehicle and extendedalong the door thereof forwardly to the vicinity of the tank 14,permitting the levers 2i to be thrown by the feet of the person drivingthe vehicle. It will be seen that when the clutch members 2l are throwninto gear the pinions 22 are driven with the shaft 19, and then by theaction of the gears 23 the traction-wheels 6 are driven, and thus thevehicle is propelled.

The stationary axle 5 carries loosely two drums 25, which are located inan orifice 26, formed'in the floor of the body ofthe vehicle, the oricebeing transversely elongated, as shown. A clutch member 27 is mounted atthe inner end ofeach drum 25, the drums being provided with hollowextensions28, on which said clutch members are splined. A double-clutchmember 29 is mounted loosely `on the axle between the clutch members 27and has a worm-gear 30 secured thereto, the

'gear being meshed with and driven by a Worm 31, fast to the shaft 16,which shaft passes directly over the top of the worm-wheel 30 anddouble-clutch member 29. The clutch members 27 are respectively inconnection with levers 32, which levers extend rearwardly below theplatform of the machine and provide a means for throwing the clutchmembers 27 in and out of gear with the double-clutch member 29. Theshaft 16 being driven by the engine, it will be seen that by the actionof the clutch members 27, in connection with the double-clutch member29, one or both of the drums 25 may be driven. These drums 25 areadapted to have chains or cables attached thereto, which chains orcables may be employed to rest and hold the logs or other objects to betransported by the vehicle, it being understood that the logs are dra'wnup beneath the platform or body 3l thereof. lDogs 25a are mounted one ateach outer end of the drums and work with ratchets on `the drums to holdthe same when the clutches are disengaged. f

A Seat 33 is mounted'on the platform or body 3 just forward of theengine l5. The operator resting on the seat may control the pilot-Wheelmanually and the levers 24 may be controlled by the feet of theoperator. The levers 32 are adapted to be thrownby a personstanding atthe side of the machine it being'understood that it will not benecessary to operate these levers 32 during the progressive movement ofthe apparatus.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patentl. In a motor-vehicle, a Wheel-supportedplatform, an engine on said platform and having driving connection withwheels thereof, a drum loosely mounted on said platform and providedwith a slidable clutch member, and a clutch member gearing With thedriving-shaft of the engine and adapted to be engaged by the slidableclutch member lof the drum, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Ina motor-Vehicle, the combination with a body or platform having afront Wheel, of an axle mounted fast in the rear 'portion thereof,traction-Wheels loose on the axle, a

transverse shaft mounted on the platform, pinions looseV on the shaftand meshed With the traction-Wheels, clutchmembers splinedgearingcomprising a clutch devicertofcontrol the drum. Y

3. The combination with a frame orY platform, of a shaft mountedtherein, aprirne mover-shaft mounted on the frame, a Worm carriedthereby, a clutchmember mounted loosely on the axle and comprising aWorm- `Wheel meshed with the Worm, a drummounted Y l looselyon the axle,and a moving clutch member-having splined connection With the drum andmovable to eng-age the rst-named'clutch member, Wherebyto control thedrum.

4, p In a motor-vehicle, the combination with a frame or platform havinga front Wheel, of traction-Wheels mountedv rearward thereof, a motormounted on the platform, gearing for driving the traction-wheels fromthe motor, such gearing comprising clutches for connecting anddisconnecting the traction-Wheels and. the motor, adrum mounted on thevehicle, andgearing for driving the drum from' GEORGE ERANcis REED.

- Witnesses:

L. N. ToWNsEND,

. A. C. BECKHAM.

